Happy April everyone,

I hope anyone who visited yesterday enjoyed the show announcement. It’s entirely true – it wasn’t an april fools joke. Did you also know that April 2nd is Opposite Day?

Anyway, we’ve been getting geared up for the School’s Out Summer Concert Series for a little while now, it things are starting to get real exciting. If you haven’t been over to the CONCERT SERIES WEB SITE, please do so, there are many fun things to behold. You’ll notice the SCHEDULE, how to DONATE, and how to GET BOOKED to play. If you’ve always wanted to play on the Plymouth Waterfront, now is your chance. If you check out the schedule, you’ll also notice we’ve got an amazing field of musicians playing: Jeff Conley, Nate Cristofori, Jesse Boncek, Amy Mercier, Boston & Bosco, Barroom Heroes (a middle school punk band), 3rd Left, Jake Hill, EHB, The Release, 14th Union, Bones & A Curtis Rhythm, and a Warped Tour send-off show for The Empire State. We’ve also got a few incredible dudes who’ll be playing but we haven’t solidified their dates yet: Greg Loftus, Jake Hill, and Sean P. Rogan of Big D and the Kids Table. And we’ll be adding a ton more as we get closer.

Needless to say, it’s going to be an incredible summer of music. But wait, there’s more! Starting April 8th, we’ll be up in Boston every Thursday night presenting SINGER-SONGWRITER THURSDAYS at Sweetwater Cafe. They’re going to be awesome shows, and if you’d like to play get in touch!

I’m gonna go eat a Fluffernutter.
- Jon

Stephen Infascelli (left) was the special guest DJ for the Nike Indoor Nationals this past weekend. Brewster provided the sound.

Happy Monday,

So we got through our weekend of sound production at the Reggie Lewis Center, where we were in charge of music and a nice little bunch of announcers carrying around wireless microphones. If you were following our frequent tweets throughout the weekend, you probably heard about some initial troubles with the mics, which we swiftly solved on Saturday morning. And you probably heard about some crazy athletics going on. Being that this was Nike Indoor Nationals, it was the national championship for high school indoor track individual and relay team athletes. We saw people breaking national all-time records and having top-ten all-time performances right and left. You can read some of the results here.

Once we got past our first-day issues with an audio ducking system (we removed it and everything magically started working great), we had a great but occasionally monotonous time. Scott, Steve Infascelli and I sat up in a big scaffolding tower with our sound equipment and a bunch of food, where we diligently kept track of 4 wireless-mic announcers roaming about the stadium and 2 wired-mic announcers close by. Check out these photos, and we’ll be posting some more video soon.

Now, back to the music – and I don’t mean the Ke$ha and Miley Cyrus we were playing all weekend. This coming weekend, 3/19 & 3/20 we’ve got two awesome shows at Sweetwater Cafe: Shaun Dever, w/ Ben Carter and Nick Amendolare on Friday 3/19, then Jake Hill and Greg Loftus on Saturday 3/20. Saturday’s show will be the Boston launch party for Tranzmission, a really cool indie music blog by our good friend and journalist Ryan Wood.

CONCERT SERIES NEWS: This past Thursday, we officially started booking artists at the School’s Out Summer Concert Series! We are beyond excited about this. So far we’ve got a giant 3rd of July show, a Warped Tour send-off party for a band from Braintree, a couple old friends, and a bunch of new ones. Go to the concert series web site to read more and check out the schedule.

Have a tubular week. Happy St. Patrick’s day.

- Jon

Greg Loftus at Sweetwater Cafe March 5, 2010. Presented by Brewster Productions.

The rad tunes were pouring out of a little room downstairs in an alleyway club tonight in Boston. Greg Loftus and Nate Cristofori, two of south-of-Boston’s finest, tuned up Sweetwater Cafe’s downstairs stage tonight. Nate started off the show with some great sing-alongs with his contagious piano-ing, and Greg closed out the evening with some incredible bluesy guitar and singing work. Check out the photos. Good night, and see you next week.

Nate Cristofori at Sweetwater Cafe March 5, 2010. Presented by Brewster Productions.

Here’s what’s going on next weekend: The two big shows are THE OKAY WIN 3/12 and 3rd LEFT 3/13, both at Sweetwater Cafe. Also next weekend, Team Brewster will be tackling the Nike Indoor Nationals track meet as the official sound team. We’re going to tweet about the wacky time we’re having the whole time with fun photos, so stay tuned to that if you feel like reliving your former athletic days through a sound production company. Which reminds me: Follow us on Twitter! Who knows, maybe we’ll end up like that girl @lovelybutton if Conan discovers us.

Photo gallery and video below!!

- Jon

PS – HAPPY 23rd BIRTHDAY TO SCOTT!

We’ve got a great show coming your way tonight in Boston. At Sweetwater Cafe, near the Common (green line Boylston stop), Greg Loftus and Nate Cristofori will taking over. You’ve seen both of them at the School’s Out concert series – we all love Greg’s gritty southern blues-folk sound and Nate’s silky smooth piano ballads. Don’t miss it. See you there.

Next week: The Okay Win and 3rd Left.

- Jon

Shaun Dever, performing 3/19 at Sweetwater Cafe, is also our main graphics and poster guy here at Brewster. So, without his computer while surfing the days away in Costa Rica, this is the poster he came up with.

This will be a great weekend. On March 19, Shaun Dever will rock the Sweetwater Cafe in his ‘back in the USA’ debut show after surfing his way through Costa Rica for some time (see the photo). Then the very next day, March 20, our good friend and international indie music writer Ryan Wood will be hosting the official Boston launch party of his new music blog, The Tranzmission, which will feature the incomparable JAKE HILL w/ another incredible mainstay of ours, Greg Loftus – it’s sure to be a bluesy, folksy night.

So you’re probably beginning to see that March at Sweetwater Cafe in Boston, presented by Brewster Productions, is going to be a pretty rad time. Make sure you check out the show schedule because we’ve got 7 SHOWS coming up featuring the likes of Sean P. Rogan (of Big D and the Kids Table), The Okay Win, Big Big Buildings, Nate Cristofori, Electric Mummy and more. It’s gonna be a great month as we get geared up for the big 3rd season of the School’s Out Summer Concert Series. (and yes, we know all these shows at sweetwater are unfortunately 21+, but you just wait a tiny bit longer and we’ll make it up to you and then some)

Later!
Jon

Greg Loftus at the Hedge House Lawn July 10, 2009.

Hey everyone,

We’ve got a new show up on the calendar (and a bunch to follow…) at Sweetwater Cafe on March 5th. Our good friends Greg Loftus and Nate Cristofori will be rocking the little Boston venue we’ve had a handful of great shows at so far. If you’re looking for some amazing southern-tinged alt-country folk-blues, you definitely want to check out GREG LOFTUS – take a listen to his killer song “Swingset Renegades” in our featured music; and Nate Cristofori will get you singing along with his silky-smooth piano ballads.

Details:
GREG LOFTUS and Nate Cristofori
@ Sweetwater Cafe, Boston
10pm, 21+, $5 cover

It’s gonna be a really fun show, and the start to a big chain of ‘em we’re doing at Sweetwater. Stay tuned to some big new about our March shows (we have a few really really cool ones on the menu).

Rock!

- Jon

Yes, this is a picture of the music player to the right. Take a listen! >>

Good morning everyone out in Brewsterland,

We have a fun announcement for anyone who likes to visit our Web site: we now have a FEATURED MUSIC PLAYER! I know this might not be terribly exciting to some, but we’re very happy we get to present one more way for the bands we work with to get exposure and new fans. We’ll be rotating the music around fairly frequently so keep an eye out for new stuff. For now, we’ve got 2 tracks from the [amazing] Christmas compilation, “A Christmas Miracle”(2009), put out by our good friend Mark Bryant at Plimro Records, and a few tunes from our good friends. Here’s the track list:

1. “The Real Kris Kringle” by The Juicebox Graduates (a new band w/ Shaun Dever, Nick Amendolare, Nate Cristofori, and Tyler Kinsherf)
2. “Starry Night (Fairy Tale)” by McCarthy & Legge (also from “A Christmas Miracle”)
3. “Wake Up” by The Release (off their debut EP, this is an incredible song)
4. “Out of My Hands” by Jake Hill (another tune from the studio of Mark Bryant)
5. “His True Song” by The Eagle Hill Band (not quite up to the engineering par of the others [i recorded this one], but nice nonetheless)

Please enjoy the music as you poke around the site (it’ll pick up right where you left off if you go to another page) – and look for new music every so often.

Laterade,

Jon

It’s just about that time a year to get out the jingle bells and wrapping paper, so what better way to kick off the season and help out some people than to put out a benefit CD. Mark Bryant, of Plimro Records (Jake Hill, Patmos Brothers Revival), COOL102, and some other cool cats put together a 22-band Christmas benefit CD featuring the likes of local favorites 3rd Left, Jake Hill, Shaun Dever and more.

Featured on the CD is a new song by a new band, featuring 4 of our good friends: Shaun Dever, Nick Amendolare (both formerly of Comboguy, and Shaun frequents our stages), Nate Cristofori (you’ve seen him on the waterfront with his piano), and Tyler Kinsherf (formerly of our old friends, the Side Street Bandits). The band, The Juicebox Graduates, and the song, “The Real Kris Kringle”. You can check it out right here at Brewster Productions! http://www.brewsterproductions.com/kringle .

The sale of the CD will benefit the Cranberry Hospice and the Fragile Footprint Pediatric Palliative Care Program. Here’s the tracklist: http://www.thecheapseats.net/a_christmas_miracle-back.jpg

There are going to be a few release parties in Plymouth and Hyannis, and we’ll let you know more about how to purchase the CD.

Happy shopping!

- Jon
BP